The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-19
PERSONAL.

Prof. K. w. Hall, of Wateryile is slowly
recovering from his sickness.
Mrs. Gates and daughter of Portland are
visiting Mrs. Theo. S. Smith of Calais.
DIR. Ii. Richardson, wife and daughter, and
Capt. III. Tucker, all of Portland, were
guests at the Allen House, Calais, Tuesday.
Mrs. Hastings, of Portland, widow of the
late NJ atthew Hastings of Calais, is visiting
friends in Calais.
Ex-Gov. Robbie addressed meeting of
Changers at Skowhegan last evening. in COM
pany with National Lecturer Whitehead.
Ex-Goy. Perham is at his home on Paris
Hill. He is looking better than for a long
time.
DIR. Martin, of Augusta, who is in London,
Is studying the question of sewerage, and
will write paper for the Maine Board of
Health.
Hon. George f. Mosher, former editor of
the Boston Morning Star, but now president
of Hillsdale College, Michigan, is visiting
with his family at Augusta.
memorial rose window to the late Dea
con Reuben Cutler to cost about $500, will
be placed in the Main street trent of the
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Frederick II. Hartford, ESQ.,, of the Cape
Elizabeth Sentinel, and wife are ON an out
ing, and win visit different parts of the
State.
Commissioner of Navigation c. d. Nor
ton arrived in Augusta Wednesday Capt.
Black, Gen. Plaisted DIR. Burns and others
met him at the dock and welcomed him
home.
Mr.. Joseph A. Springer, of Portland, Vice
Consul at Havana, has been recognized by
the Spanish Government as Acting Consul
General in the absence Of Consul General
Ramon 0. Williams.
j. 4. Cram, A. NJ, a graduate of Boston
University, and for number of years an
instructor in the American College at Bey-
rout, Syria, has been engaged as an assistant
in Prof. Leighton's Preparatory School about
to be opened in this city.
John A. Mace of Belfast, conductor on the
Belfast Branch railroad, has been in the en-
ploy of the Maine Central railroad twenty
years, sixteen of which he has been conduc-
tor on the Belfast road. The Belfast journal
reckons that for the year he travels AZ, 49,
miles, and in the twenty years he has travel
ed S4S,640 miles. In the sixteen years which
he has been conductor there never has been
an accident to passenger.
Inspector Hanscom joined the 18th Maine
Regiment at the time of its formation, and
served in 1t three years. He was captured at
Charlottesville and confined successfully in
the rebel prisons of Libby and Belle Isle.
He was exchanged in time to join his regi-
ment on the retreat from Culpepper. He
went to Boston in 1867, joined the police
force in 1873, was appointed inspector under
the first police commission in 1878, and was
made chief inspector in 1885, He was with
the iboys at their reunion at Oxford yester-
day.
On the 10Th of August, 1886, yacht in
which Henry j. Hall, wife and child of New
York city, summer sojourners at Saturday
Cove, with others. were out sailing, was cap.
sized off Duck Trap. The schooner Lion of
Brooksyille, Capt. George FL. Chatto, rescued
the party, and they were taken by Capt L.
III. Duncan to his home in Lincolnyille.
where the captain and his wife did all in
their power to make them comfortable. Re-
Gently Capt. Duncan received a handsome
silver ice pitcher and salver, with kind
note from Mr. and Mrs HALL ees